Innovative Production Machines and Systems Conference - Reconfigurable Systems

WELCOME TO IPROMS 2006 - RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS SECTION

Lagos — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:09:19 +0100

Dear participants,

My name is Nikolaos Lagos and I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the 2nd International I*PROMS Virtual Conference and the Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems session.

on-line monitoring of tool wear using neural networks

mahesh — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:52:28 +0100

on-line monitoring tool wear in order to over come dimensional in accuracy in turning

Analysis of wireless technologies for automation networking

cardeira — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:21:36 +0100

C. Cardeira, A. Colombo, R. Schoop

Wireless technologies are challenging automation for new products and services. Like it happened in the past with Ethernet, the growing popularity of wireless among the general public is lowering the costs of wireless equipment. In the same way that Ethernet is being more and more spread in automation networking, wireless solutions are starting to find their place in automation networking, in spite of some scepticism about their robustness in a industrial environment. In this paper we show some of the advantages and issues of wireless network in manufacturing networking, namely the ability of exiting solutions to meet real time requirements, their security and safety issues, power issues and location awareness of the wireless devices.

Linking production paradigms and organizational approaches to production systems

Carmo-Silva — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:16:37 +0100

S. Carmo-Silva, A.C. Alves, F. Moreira

Manufacturing system design and operation is critical to achieve strategic company objectives. This must aim fitting manufacturing systems capabilities to the different demand market environments, having in consideration the different approaches and strategies that should be used. In this paper we develop a framework for characterizing production system conceptual models and linking them to both production paradigms and organizational approaches to production, such as lean and agile manufacturing. The conceptual models identified are useful for aiding to implement organizational approaches and fit manufacturing systems to manufacturing requirements determined by different product demand patterns.

Towards reconfiguration applications as basis for control system evolution in zero-downtime automation systems

Sünder et al. — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:14:55 +0100

C. Sünder
A. Zoitl
B. Favre-Bulle
T. Strasser
H. Steininger
S. Thomas

Industrial Automation and Control Systems will evolve towards downtimeless, adaptable, distributed real-time systems. Especially the reconfiguration of control applications is not sufficiently solved by State-of-the-Art technology. This paper gives an overview of the use of reconfiguration applications for downtimeless system evolution of control applications on basis of the standard IEC 61499. This new methodology combines the need for close interaction with the application/physical process and the existing knowledge about the modelling of control applications. By use of a representative example the structure, the required instruction set and the methodology for the downtimeless system evolution utilizing a reconfiguration application are described. The special requirements, which concern to the topics verification, failure handling and the runtime platform, are presented.

Engineering modular automation systems

Robert Harrison — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:12:42 +0100

R. Harrison, A.A. West, S.M. Lee

Automation systems often fail adequately to support required business objectives. Whilst they may offer adequate real-time performance, they are often difficult and complex to support, configure, integrate, and optimise, particularly in the face of rapid and often unforeseen change. Research conducted at Loughborough University into the development of concepts and tools to support the global engineering of component-based reconfigurable manufacturing automation systems in the automotive production domain is described in this paper. A collaborative framework to integrate and coordinate the various engineering activities of globally distributed engineering teams involved in the design, implementation, operation and diagnosis of production machinery is also described.

An advanced engineering environment for distributed & reconfigurable industrial automation & control systems based on IEC 61499

strasser — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:10:14 +0100

T. Strasser
I. Müller
M. Schüpany
G. Ebenhofer
R. Mungenast
C. Sünder
A. Zoitl
O. Hummer
S. Thomas
H. Steininger

Responsive system based on a reconfigurable structure

Efstathiou — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:07:12 +0100

B. Hu and J. Efstathiou

A reconfigurable modular approach is proposed to construct a responsive manufacturing system to satisfy customers’ varied demand. In order to achieve this, the system employs a three-level control structure. We present the system’s dynamic behavior and optimal layout, as well as performance measures. Entropic measurement of demand and factory capacity is used to determine the local optimal strategy under dynamic scheduling. We conclude this paper using cases of successful fast-responding corporations to gain insight into responsive reconfigurable systems.

A novel adaptive process planning framework

Alessandro Battino — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:16:16 +0100

Today’s successful production companies are characterized by factors once neglected, like the ability to learn from experience and to flexibly adapt to changes in the environment. In order to significantly improve such qualities, in current research activities a new specie of learning and intelligent components is being developed. The capacities of such “gentelligent® components” to gather information and to act autonomously offer new potentials for increasing efficiency in production. One of the current concerns is that a big part of manufacturing orders cannot be processed as planned because of disturbance arising after completion of planning activities. In this paper, a novel approach for the partial integration of process planning and production control is presented, which allows exploiting the potentials of gentelligent® components in order to flexibly react to disturbances in production.